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Breast-feeding: main promoter of infant health
(1978-11)
Unique immunological factors in breast milk arc responsible for the protection
it affords infants against pathogenic agents. This protection is panicularly effective against the
infectious agents which invade or colonize ...
Oral rehydration of neonates with dehydrating diarrhoeas
(The Lancet Vol 314(8154): 1209-1210. Dec 08, 1979., 1979-12-08)
Thirty-nine of forty neonates with mean
dehydration equivalent to 6.7% of bodyweight
were orally rehydrated with a glucose/electrolyte
solution. Only one patient required any intravenous
fluids for rehydration. ...
Diarrhea and malnutrition, research priorities: Research Priorities
(Diarrhea and malnutrition: interactions, mechanisms, and interventions; Plenum Press p 305 308, 1983)
There have been many recent advances in our understanding of the etiology, pathogenesis, mechanisms, and management of acute and chronic diarrheal disease. Many studies have investigated the role of diarrhea in producing ...
Interactions of malnutrition and infection
(Arab World Printing House. In: Practical approaches to combat malnutrition with special reference to mothers and children. Cairo, Egypt. May 25-29, 1977. N.S. Scrimshaw y M. Gabr (editors). Ministry of Health, Cairo, Egypt, Arab World Printing House, Egypt, p.134-144, 1979., 1979-05)
It is impossible and impracticable to separate health problems from their environmental causes. Thus, a quick glance at the present world distribution of famine and of severe and chronic malnutrition reveals a concentration ...
The nature of the nutrition problem
(1978)
This paper attempts to conceptualize malnutrition
from an ecological point of view. One definition of
malnutrition, a term that in Spanish can be rendered
by either 'desnutricion' or 'malnutricion', is:
a pathologic ...
Diarrea por Campylobacter fetus jejuni y otros agentes infecciosos en niños del área rural de Puriscal, Costa Rica
(Revista de Biología Tropical 32(1) p.137-143, 1984-01-04)
Between September 1979 and September 1981 a field study was conducted on the etiology of
diarrhea' disease in the area of Puriscal, Costa Rica. The presence of enteric pathogens was investigated in
the stools of 267 ...
Mezclas vegetales nutritivas y simples para el niño costarricense
(Revista Medica Hospital Nacional de Niños Dr. Carlos Sáenz Herrera, Costa Rica 15(1): 71-90, 1980)
Con el fin de contribuir a mejorar la alimentación del niño costarricense, se
elaboraron mezclas vegetales teóricas de alto valor nutritivo. Esas mezclas consisten
en la combinación de una leguminosa con un cereal o ...
Comparison of Tropical and Temperate Zone Diarrheal Problems
(1978)
In the past. we thought there were differences hetween tropica! and temperate
zones in the etiology of intestinal diseases. Recent observations indicate that
such differences do not exist. Infectious agents are ubiquitous. ...
Shigellosis in Central America
(Shigellosis: a continuing global problem:ICDDR,Bangladesh p 26-38, 1983)
Shigella infections are very common in Central America, except in Costa
Rica and Panama where prevalence rates are low. Shigellosis is the most
serious among all the specific diarrhoeas, due to its invasive character,
systemic ...
The malnutrition-infection complex and its environment factors
(The Proceeding of the Nutrition Society 38(1):29-40. 1979, 1979-05)
Study of the genesis of malnutrition in contemporary traditional and transitional societies clearly reveals that malnutrition is a man-made condition or social disease. Apparently, malnutrition does not occur among wild ...